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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The New Economy

One thing really bugs me when I think about the development of the human race. It is the inequity with that the goods that technology created are distributed. Throughout history, money was a way to organize the things people needed, because they didn't produce everything on their own. So you could simply exchange your goods for the things you needed. That was an extremely important point in human history, because the single members of society could concentrate on what they did best. Eventually money was invented, a universal trading agent, which you could trade for anything you needed (or wanted). The problem with money though is, that with a little knowledge in math you can create more money from itself. Over the course of the centuries this effect accumulated and money quickly got a life of it's own. Look at it now, the 'bail-out' for the banks last year totaled somewhere around 800 billion dollars, that is enough money to update the power-infrastructure of the earth to renewable resources (yes, completely) and then some.

Money really has been the only option while we couldn't trace all resources and distribute them in a perfect manner. But now, we can! The incredible rise of the machines within human society (called 'narrow AI') gives us a unique chance to leave the (obviously pretty) imperfect approximation of mmoney behind and tackle the quest of creating a machine-based resource-distributing system that creates true equality for all human beings. A good example for a project that is already running is the 'Venus Project' founded by Jaque Fresco and explained in 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'. A resource-based economy is our only option of solving the numerous problems caused by the defunct monetarian system. So some of you might scream 'COMMUNIST!!1'. Let me explain something to you people. Communism is bad (very bad) if run by humans. We simply don't have the mental capacity of dealing with problems of extremely many dimensions. However, we created something that has this capability. We call it computers. Let me break it down:
Communism w/ human: BAD!
Communisn w/ machines: PERFECT!

The breakdown of the "defunct monetarian system" is due largely to the move away from virtue and towards relativism. Fiat systems have been allowed (forced) to move away from objective scarcity and towards a mathematically controllable end. The fear of "losing money" or "failing" has been replaced with a safe-system that destroys the natural mechanisms which regulate the mistakes of human beings (these are called recessions or depressions). Furthermore, the reasons corporations are allowed to grow so large is because of the existence of central-banking, which provide endless loans of last resort. With no way to fail + computers controlling the money supply and flows, can you at least understand how what you're suggesting has already failed miserably?

I think you misunderstand the wohle system i propose. In a reasource-based economy ther simply is no money. It would be senseless... Only a small percantage of people wuld have to work, so there is no way they could earn money. But if you want something, you tell it to the computer and it takes this wish into it's calculations, which control the (automated) fabrication-systems that produce all goods. You think too much in our present paradigm of working and consuming. But this paradigm creates much too much waste. The only way to reducing waste is optimizing the relations of demand and fabrication. And the only way to achieve THAT is rapid data-processing, hence AI-controlled economy.

Humans simply don't have the mental capacity for that. The upper limit of thing you can have on your mind is seven. But when facing a task as huge as distributing goods equally, even thousand humans together would fail. We saw this in the Soviet Union. Also, when people would do this task, they would treat people differently for many reasons, like racism, misogynism and general stupidity. Machines are immune to all that.